Pierre calls himself ‘a lucky bum’ who has been able to make music his whole life. He bought his first guitar in 1961 when The Shadows were the craze – even in France! He was soon listening to American folk and blues music. Once he heard Bert and John Renbourn, he says everything else became redundant. He started transcribing straight away. He used to visit London 2 or 3 times a year in the ’60s to buy records and go to hear them at the folk clubs. Pierre spent a decade in the ’70s and ’80s in Arizona gigging in bars, coffee shops and hotels, before returning to France.